ultimate

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌltɪmɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʌltəmɪt/

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin ultimatus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultimare (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”); see ultra-.

AdjectiveEdit

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Ultimate

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ultimate (not comparable)

1. Final; last in a series.
   • 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England^[1], page 15:

     […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]

2. (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
3. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

   the ultimate pleasure

   the ultimate disappointment

   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii

     Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

4. Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
5. That will happen at some time; eventual.
6. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
   • Coleridge

     those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict

7. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

   an ultimate constituent of matter

AntonymsEdit

• (w.r.t. causes): proximate

Derived termsEdit

• antepenultimate
• penultimate
• ultimateness

Coordinate termsEdit

• (adjectives denoting syllables): penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

Related termsEdit

• ulterior
• ultimatum
• ultra
• ultra-

TranslationsEdit

NounEdit

ultimate (plural ultimates)

1. The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
2. The final or most distant point; the conclusion
3. The greatest extremity; the maximum
4. (uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.

External linksEdit

• ultimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• ultimate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• mutilate

VerbEdit

ultimate

1. second-person plural present indicative of ultimare
2. second-person plural imperative of ultimare
3. feminine plural of ultimato

AnagramsEdit

• multiate, mutilate